Leeks, Courgettes top left, Celiac bottom right and sweetcorn top right

Harvest time is upon us as we reap from our gardens what we have sown. It’s wonderful to see something that you planted from a tiny seed that grows and matures to a full-grown crop.

And haven’t you ever just stopped to think for a moment about those seeds. Just how miraculous they are. Each seed so tiny, yet they know exactly how to grow. Each tiny cell splitting off to become a leaf, petal or fruit. Just as our human cells know which cells form toes and teeth.

Pink Pompom the bees love

The Bees are always on this little single petal dahlia

Each plant perhaps relying on natures helping hand as the bees pollinate creating new seeds for next year’s seasons

Our Apples

Apples all 5 of them Smiles

I have so enjoyed this Summer. It started out life here in the UK as being one of the wettest June’s for a long while. It was very cool to start with. Yet despite the cold start Nature catches up. And even though our sweetcorn took 3 attempts to sow this year it too caught up and now we are harvesting the ripe corn cobs

Sweetcorn Crop

Picked Sweetcorn cobs

Life is a little like planting. We get to harvest what we have sown.

I came across a wonderful post from Erika today whose own post was about the seeds we sow in Life.. in her post here entitled The Challenge of Growth

How true too about those seeds as Erika describes them to break down and collapse before they open and bring forth their new growth. I invite you to go read her excellent thoughts on how we ourselves grow through our challenges.

Corn gone to seed Not all can mature perfectly.

As I view the world today I see many of our old ways now collapsing, they have to if we are to change.

Everything comes in cycles, Day follows Night, Seasons Change. We look back through history and see how our world has gone through its different ages. It seems we are now in the technological age. One at the moment I seem to in conflict with, big smiles as it seems me and technology are not getting on as well of late.

Not everything in our garden’s can be rosy all the time and in full bloom. But with Love and attention to what is important in our lives as we give our attention to the things which matter. We then reap that which we sow

Begonias in tubs large and small in our front garden.

I ask myself why is that me and techology seem in conflict right now – Could it be the Universe is wanting my attention elsewhere? I have got much thinking to do at the moment and choices to make. But I know what ever choice I make, it will be Ok, for there are no right or wrong roads, for all roads lead us to our destinations. It’s just sometimes we can detour off the path and for some they can become lost amid the jungle of choices that in this digital age can distract us from the true seeds we need to sow. Which often are the most basic.

To Care and Share.

We may have forgotten some of the things that really matter in our lives. As the distractions of this material world have never been greater as they grab our attention and steel our energies and lower our vibrations.

I invite all of you who may be feeling of a low ebb and stressed out with the world right now to reconnect with your inner seed. The one that beats life into you day in and day out. Go into the HEART of Nature and start to listen to your own Heart.

It is patiently waiting for you to understand that all you need do for it to grow and expand to the Light, is for you to nurture it with the best nutrient ever given to man.

I love the beautiful photos, and how you have arranged them! ❤ Love the photo of you too! So sweet! I love your garden, and what you said about nurturing our inner seed. ❤ I love autumn! I always have!

Wise reflections on life and harvesting more consciously what we want to feed and grow in our lives. And I absolutely agree that the most important “nutrient” is love!
Thanks for nurturing us with your love and wisdom Sue. ❤

Your beautiful looks heavenly Sue. The hard work you and hubby have put into it have translated with outstanding productivity. All the unsual natural forces have done is make it even more perfect. with love and blessings, Eddie

It never ceases to amaze me Sue all that you do with your hubby in the garden… aaanndd … how is an oak tree contained within an acorn? We are surrounded by miracles if only we are aware and take the time to look! Love, David

Yes those miracles within each seed, within each plant, each insect. and yes each human being.. We seem often to have forgotten to take TIME out to just ponder on Life, its meaning, and live in gratitude for all it offers us.. Yes we so often allow it to pass us by .. Enjoy your Time David within your cottage garden .. Enjoy every moment .. Love and Blessings Sue ❤

That is my hubbys job.. You wait until the first frost has blackened the tops and the leaves.. Cut off the stems leaving a few inches of the stalks. You then dig up the tubas, carefully so they are in tact. My hubby then puts them upside down so the stems are at the bottom.. This allows the sap to drain out as they dry out and not get the tubas mouldy.. When they are air dried enough my hubby then covers them in hessian sacking or you could use newspaper, but make sure the tubas are dry as the paper could get soggy and send the tubas mouldy and they can rot. We leave in the shed in trays covered so they are frost free.. Then bring them out in spring, We always add good compost beneath them. This year we had spread lots of manure over winter where we planted so the soil was quite rich.. We put a steak where we plant them so we know where the tender shoots are to appear. And just make sure you water regular.. And hey presto! 🙂 Hope that helps if you want to over winter any 🙂 We do the same with the Begonia’s too.. But plant in tubs and compost in Spring and leave them in the green house until we know there will be not frost before we put outside. 🙂

Yes, a beautiful post! You have combined nature’s trials and triumphs with our own human struggles. I am so impressed with your harvest and your flowers. And I shall look into my inner seed for strength and growth!

Your smiling flowers and lovely words exude immense love for nature and growth…what a harvest Sue…your summer of efforts is now glowing before you! Lovely pics and the one with Dahlias around you is awesome! Stay blessed and keep up the good work…full of cheer for the body and the mind.
Thank you for sharing. Love and hugs. 🙂

Oh thank you Maniparna.. So pleased you enjoyed my post.. Yes I am never more happy than when in the garden.. It connects me and heals me, and just brings so much peace.. ❤ Thank you again Maniparna.. xx

Yes bounty indeed.. We have had our losses too.. But that is true to all ways of life.. Our outdoor tomatoes got blight. But we have more than enough and are giving them away left right and centre. 🙂 xx

Thank you dearest Hariod.. Blogging I will still keep up with, but I am deeply thinking of taking on a new project that will require lots of attention. But I am still in Ponder mode.. I need to have faith in my self and perhaps Nature will give me more answers as I spend time on Wednesday helping dig up the potatoes for storage 🙂
I have too many Good friends here to lose touch with you all.. And thank you dear Hariod for making my heart smile with your love and generous thoughts xx

Sue, this was wonderful! Yes, life is like planting and it is so true that some things have to wither to become food for other plants. What a wonderful analogy. Oh, and thank you so very much for mentioning my post. I was so surprised while reading your post and all of a sudden seeing my name. You are such a kind person and for sure the water to help so many sleeping seeds to wake up! Thank you 💖

I loved your post Erika.. and it prompted me to get back into writing more philosophy type posts.. And your post was the catalyst so I combined the photo’s I and my hubby took this weekend which fitted in nicely.. And thank you for that compliment dear Erika .. The pleasure was all mine in connecting more people with your amazing blog who don’t already know you. ❤

Time is short right now as harvesting gets underway. So I thought to share my post from my main blog Dreamwalker’s Sanctuary to show you what I have been up to this last week. Have a wonderful Week and Happy Gardening everyone. Love Sue xx

Thank you Sue for sharing the gorgeous fruits of your labor here with us on America’s Labor Day. The produce and flowers are stunning in all states of perfect imperfection. I am frankly glad to see this summer end and fortunately we are having some relief from a relentless heat wave.

Thank you kindly Linda. I hope you had a wonderful Labour Day.. And Summer turned out here better than expected.. And we are experiencing another warm spell here after a colder interlude..
I hope your weather settles to the seasonal norm so it is tollerable
Sending LOVE your way xxx

So beautiful, Sue. I love your gardens, but I love your outlook on life even more. Enjoy your bounty for me as well, because not much fresh, organic food is coming my way this year. Maybe next year will be the big one. Hugs and love, A ❤ ❤ ❤ xxx

Thank you dear Angie.. So pleased you enjoyed my post and the views.. I dare not begin to think about some of the foods sold in supermarkets and the amount of pesticides poured over them let alone the fertilizers in the soil used.. Then food is irradiated to give a longer shelf life.. Give me homegrown organic any day.. Hope you are well my friend and thank you for your lovely visit xx

Sue, your garden is lovely and I especially love the Dahlias. I tried to grow them but they didn’t come back from last year. Will have to try something different. It’s like Einstein said. “Either nothing is a miracle or everything is”. Everything is designed to grow in it’s own perfect or imperfect way and that includes us. Some years we grow better than others. I love your analogy. It was an odd summer in so many ways. June here was hotter than ever but August was fall like. ??? We just roll with it and make our adjustments. I’m ready for the rest of winter though. I will miss the daylight mostly. I tend to be solar powered. 🙂 Hugs and have a wonderfilled week ahead.

if the ground was too cold from frost Marlene then the tubas will rot.. We lift them where we live as the ground gets too cold.. Yet in some parts of the UK they can be find left in the ground.. If you put some mulch perhaps over the tops when they die down that may protect them to stop you digging up .. as its not a job I do, I leave this to my hubby who has become expert at drying them out and covering them in the shed to save the tubas for next year.. Some of the
are now quite old.. All though we have through the years still lost tubas which have gone mouldy..
Yes we just have to roll with the weather that is true.. The nights here too drawing in very fast now.. And yes the Sun energises us.. In the winter have you tried taking extra Vit D tablets that helps.. 🙂

Thanks for all the information, Sue. I thought that maybe I should have dug them up but couldn’t find them again. I’ll do better next year. I do try to remember to take my vitamin D. I’ll have to stay on top of it this year.

I LOVE dahlias! You are so lucky they like your gardens! And what gardens they are! I love how different our soils are. Ours so red brown and yours so gray … it always amazes me what we can urge frm the ground. You’ve truly done a wondrous job there, Sue. ❤️😉😘

its really amazing to watch ur flowers. and the most beautiful is u.
standing in the middle of coloures. yesterday had a talk with friend. she was saying
like a flower a child grows. beautiful isn’t it. a seed becomes a flower
huggy
MJ

Yes a seed becomes a flower.. And we must nurture the children of the world.. So vulnerable are they to influences and their environment around them.. They can either flourish or whither.. We have a great responsibility to them to nurture their welfare in todays world of technological influences.. Which to my mind while appearing to create a genius who can use a computer or tablet, can also control a young mind to be addicted to games in like a zombie to the point they spend far too much time indoors and not connecting to nature and fresh air.
Love and Hugs dear MJ and thank you.. Lovely to see you
Hugs Sue

Hi Sheila, yes these Dahlias have grown even higher this Sheila as the tubas are more mature, I am delighted at the amount of flowers produced.. I grow for cut flowers and can not begin to tell you the amount I have cut to enjoy and give to neighbours and family.. They bring a smile to my face every time I look on them.. Thank you my friend.. Tomorrow I help hubby dig up the potato rows. That should be fun.. 😉

What a great show of love and pride that comes with the work and effort you give to your garden, rewarded with the riches you show here on your blog. The key to life you mention here, “with Love and attention to what is important in our lives as we give our attention to the things which matter…” and it seems when there is this focus on a part of your life, you are rewarded with blossoms. Great post Sue, and wish you a great week.

Thank you Randall.. we are indeed lucky to be rewarded with such fruits of our labours.. Gardening at times can be hard work, but its never a real chore, it is always a pleasure.. And a place I can lose myself in.. My rewards often are in the smallest things such as watching how the Bees have benefitted from the Dahlias and my reward this year is that the caterpillars have not appeared in droves to munch their way through my cabbages :-).. Though I will be missing the Butterflies next year.. Its a worry this year as not as many butterflies were around to lay their eggs.. All is so carefully balanced within Nature.. Which is why we grow some crops for us, some to give away and some which we know will get devoured by them. 🙂 Many thanks Randall you too enjoy your week ❤

Sue your love shines beautifully through everything your heart, and mind sets, out to do. You are a true sower, of spiritual and loving seeds. God’s love shines and blossoms to us through all you bless us with! Hugs and blessings my sister to you and your family!.

Thank you dearest Wendell, oh how pleased I am to see you, I miss so many of your beautiful poetry but when I do catch them they inspire and show the true meaning of that LOVE my friend. So your compliment here is a true blessing.. Thank you.. Wishing you and yours a wonderful week.. Love and Light to you ❤ Sue

Beautiful reflections and metaphors Sue. Certainly we reap what we sow, and oh my have you reaped a beautiful bounty. Thank you for sharing the beautiful flowers. Enjoy the fruits of your labours. 🙂 xoxo

No time like the present Pat to start planting… Even if it is only in pots.. 🙂 and yes if you lived next door you would perhaps now be sick of the flowers and tomatoes and Kidney beans I bring you.. lol 🙂 xxx Thank you so much.. Hugs right back xx

Thank you for that Huge compliment Ian.. 🙂 But I am definitely No Eve lol.. 😉 The hardest work is all down to ‘Adam’ who today needs a medal as its so humid out and hot today as he dug out around 6 rows of potatoes. Big smiles xxx

Ahh, harvest time, one of my favorite times of the year. You have much more to harvest then we. Your gardens are massive, Sue, and I just LOVE the pictures of them. There have been so many challenges and changes of late which I pray with all I AM will lead us to this New World I have dreamed of for so long. Take care of yourself, especially your back with all the bending and lifting. As for your techo problems, those too will even out, you’ll see. Take it from me the minute you stop trying to figure things out, things will somehow just “come” to you and you’ll get the understanding. When we try so hard and try to force, of course, it does not happen. I’m giggling as I write that because I stand guilty as charged for still doing what I know doesn’t work. 🙂 Much Love to you, dear friend!!! ❤

Yes it is a large plot of land and this year it has taken more effort to maintain.. The muscles do protest more 🙂 .. And you are right Amy if we allow all things to flow they find their natural paths and all will clear and work out just as it is meant to.. And yes we can be the worlds worst at taking our own advice .. Giggling here too xxx Love and hugs dear Amy ❤

Does it not feel so good to be open enough to be honest with one another? That is what is so special about those of us who have walked a certain road and can admit, oh yeah, I may know all this wisdom, and yes I have lived it, but to abide by it all the time … Well, that’s another matter totally. You are just so cute and darling. One of the most endearing things for me is to have conversations with those who do not play games, who are open and honest, and are very very human. Much Love to you, Sue!! ❤

Yes Amy we learn through LIVING LIFE.. And that is the best experience we could possibly have. We climb up and over our struggles and gain strength of character along the journey. And we are not afraid to tell it like it is or profess to be something we are not.. 🙂 Mega Hugs dear Amy ❤ ❤

Hello Vinny and welcome, Yes I have heard of this phrase. What the world is also is a reflection of who we are.. If we want the world to change then we are the ones who have to be prepared to change..

As within so without!

🙂

🙂 We can not expect Peace if we are the ones who are often in judgement, angry, greedy and intolerant.. If we want outward Peace, we first have to cultivate it within our own hearts and start planting the seeds of truth, love, tolerance and Peace..
Many thanks Vinny for your most welcome visit.. There are many facets to our nature, and within all of us I believe we have many sides of self yet to uncover.. I like the name of your website.. 🙂
It may be time that our Earth is once again in the process of creating many more Diamonds out of those People who at the moment have lost their shine.. Is a diamond not made of extremes amount of pressure? 🙂 .. Seems that this is the only way Humans will learn how precious Life really is.. Geologists are still guessing how diamonds formed in the Earth from 1 billion to 3 billion years ago.. How long have Humans been on Earth? is a debateable question.. But we can be sure it has only taken us a couple of hundred years to mess it up..
Nature is the barometer of how we are doing, and I think she is asking us to take notice of those Little things that count.. For we are ALL ONE, each reliant upon the other..

Thank you kindly Vinny for your kind complement of the allotment garden.. And may we all notice those little things which make a huge difference.. 🙂 Blessings to you and yours..
Sue

Wow! What a wonderful harvest! Personally I seem to be harvesting Wood Pigeons 😉 I put food out on the bird table once when I moved in and now they come flying in every time I go outside in the garden! They’re so big they are the size of the bird table and guard it fiercely even when there’s no food out…they make it very clear they’d like there to be food there – pronto, too! In fact I’d say the bird table has turned into a Pokemon-GO gym! Guarded by “wild pidgey’s!!” It’s very interesting harvesting Wood Pigeons! xx

Yes Pigeons can over take and be a nuisance to smaller birds wanting to feed.. We had a pair of them regulars you could set your clock by them. Then they stopped coming, I think a neighbours cat may have scarred them off or they didn’t like the way my hubby would always hang the feeders so as they couldn’t get to it.. He has a long memory of his cabbages being decimated by pigeons LOL.. I would tell him not to be so mean.. as he would hang them so they couldn’t get to the suet sticks .. 🙂
But we always sprinkled some of the corn seed on the lawn, which they could easily get to and they mop up after the birds from the feeders.. 🙂 we are not that cruel LOL 😉 Good luck with your super pigeons, Haha you made me smile Wolfie xxx

These wood pigeons are quite sure they own the bird table! Rooks and Ravens line the fence taking it in turns to challenge wood pidgey who defends his table to the bitter end with puffed up chest and fearsome pecks in the challengers face! Doesn’t worry the blue tits who take advantage of the bird feeders underneath 😉 Or the pair of Robins who land on the grass below 😁 Very noisy cooing from big fat wood pidgey though!! xx

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